A grief-stricken Texas is asking whether meteorologists and local officials did enough to prevent flood devastation.

Before heading to bed before the Fourth of July holiday, Christopher Flowers checked the weather while staying at a friend’s house along the Guadalupe River. Nothing in the forecast alarmed him. Hours later,

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said emergency responders remained in a search and rescue posture, hours after the flooding along the Guadalupe River inundated nearby areas. "So many people have been swept up into an extraordinary catastrophe,